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Title: 5 ways Apple can stop developers from abandoning Apple Watch
Post by: HCK on February 10, 2018, 04:05:11 pm
5 ways Apple can stop developers from abandoning Apple Watch

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<p>By all accounts, Apple Watch Series 3 (https://www.macworld.com/article/3230008/wearables/apple-watch-series-3-lte-review.html) is a huge hit (https://www.macworld.com/article/3251856/techology-business/iphone-ipad-sales-surprisingly-flat-but-apple-still-soars-to-record-revenue-in-first-quarter.html) for Apple. Over the past year, Apple Watch has steadily increased its sales, with Series 3 models selling at twice the rate of Series 2 last year, according to Tim Cook, and wearables revenue increasing by 50 percent for the fourth straight quarter.</p><p>But while people may be buying more Apple Watches than ever before, apps are going in the other direction. In the past few months, <a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/05/01/major-apps-abandoning-apple-watch-including-google-maps-amazon-ebay" rel="nofollow">several notable apps[/url] have departed from the Apple Watch store, among them Amazon, eBay, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/27/twitters-apple-watch-app-has-disappeared/" rel="nofollow">Twitter[/url], and most recently, <a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/31/slack-is-latest-major-service-to-drop-standalone-apple-watch-app" rel="nofollow">Slack[/url]. Why? People weren’t really using them.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3253122/wearables/5-ways-apple-can-stop-developers-from-abandoning-apple-watch.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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